Scott interviews Sheldon Richman about his new book, a collection of essays on the history of Israel and Palestine. He explains that almost everything we've heard about the official narrative of the founding of Israel is wrong—far from a country of peaceful Jews...
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Americans’ Estrangement Threatens the Empire
by Austen Proctor | Sep 25, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics
Introduction When aiming to answer the question of “what is going on with America?” one must look first at what the underlying feelings currently held by Americans, by asking the first question: “what do Americans agree on?” The contemporary feeling is overwhelmingly...
The Inherent Nature of Compulsory Schooling
by Eric Barajas | Sep 24, 2019 | Featured Articles
For almost a century, all U.S. states have enforced compulsory education laws that permit the State to extort parents at gunpoint, taking their money and children away from them to fund and fill indoctrination camps for a third of the day, 5 days a week, 9 months a...
Food Is Freedom: How Washington’s Food Subsidies Have Helped Make Americans Fat and Sick
by Sam Jacobs | Sep 23, 2019 | Featured Articles
Farm subsidies are perhaps the ultimate, but secret, third rail of American politics. While entitlements are discussed out in the open, farm subsidies are rarely talked about – even though they are the most expensive subsidy Washington doles out. All told, the U.S....
Surveillance: You’d Better Chose Wisely
by Michael Maharrey | Sep 23, 2019 | Featured Articles
I’ve often joked that George Orwell’s novel 1984 was meant to be a warning, not an instruction manual. And yet every day the U.S. marches closer and closer to making Orwell’s dystopian nightmare a reality. Nobody wants this. So, why is it happening? Because way too...
Why Workers Don’t Need to be Protected from Automation
by Jean Vilbert | Sep 19, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles
As this article shows, technology creates more jobs than it destroys – despite the claims to the contrary, innovation is a job creator, not a job demolisher”. But this issue keeps receiving attention. For example, Bill de Blasio’s “robot tax” idea and Andrew Yang’s...
An Amiable Contrarian – The Great Ron Paul: The Scott Horton Show Interviews 2004-2019
by Aaron Keith Harris | Sep 17, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics
The Great Ron Paul: The Scott Horton Show Interviews 2004-2019 When Ron Paul left Congress after failing to win the GOP nomination in 2012, it seemed as though the movement that formed around his two historic presidential campaigns would continue to thrive. After all,...
9/6/19 Dan Cohen on Mob Violence and Nativism in Hong Kong
by Scott Horton | Sep 9, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Dan Cohen comes on the show for an update on the protests in Hong Kong. Though positioned as a popular pro-democracy movement, some of the protest leaders have alarming ties to American think tanks like the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, which may be trying to...
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The Business of America: War, War, War!
Sachs mentions Timber Sycamore which was a classified weapons supply and training program run by the CIA and supported by the United Kingdom and some Arab intelligence services, including Saudi intelligence. The aim of the program was to remove Syrian president Bashar...
Mises on Wages under Capitalism
"While daily experience taught impressively that under capitalism real wage rates and the wage earners’ standard of living were steadily rising, while it became from day to day more obvious that the traditional walls separating the various strata of the population...
Anti-War Blog – Do They Really Know It’s Christmas?
Every year as the end of December crawls near, the spirit of Christmas grips those sometimes Christians, even atheists join in and celebrate it as a cultural habit and the true believers further confirm their faith. The spirit of celebration is one of joy, community,...
Winter Reading
Libertarian Institute Director Scott Horton’s new book is shaking things up and making a stir all at once. Provoked: How Washington Started The New Cold War With Russia And The Catastrophe In Ukraine is a read it and weep. Or, for the War Party hacks, don’t read it;...
A Warhead That Could: The Extinction Event for Exquisite Military Platforms
Chalk up another crafty Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) to the Russian military. I am hoping the West has noticed the game changer that a conventional warhead on hyper-sonic IRBMs and ICBMs has changed the balance of power in near peer and peer combat for the...
Economics Is about Individual Choice
"The light which the economic theorist can throw on an economic process, or on the outcome of such a process, is viewed as deriving from his ability to relate back the process to the individual acts of choice of which the process is made up. Through the theorist’s...
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